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# [Dalai Lama concedes he may be the last](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-30510018?OCID=fbasia)
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> China has said repeatedly that it will choose the next Dalai Lama.
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> "The Dalai Lama institution will cease one day. These man-made institutions will cease," the Dalai Lama told the BBC.
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>Tibetan Buddhism's second-highest figure is the Panchen Lama - a figure who is meant to play a key role in the choice of the next Dalai Lama.
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>A young boy was named as Panchen Lama by the Dalai Lama in 1995, but China rejected this and chose its own candidate. The whereabouts of the Dalai Lama's choice are unknown.

To help cheetah out a little bit, that article is from the BBC, at http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-30510018?OCID=fbasia. Click on the headline to read the full article, which is from 2014.

From Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11th_Panchen_Lama_controversy

# [11th Panchen Lama controversy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11th_Panchen_Lama_controversy)

> The search committee process involving monks in Tibet under strict supervision of the Chinese communist regime was disrupted when the Dalai Lama, according to the Tibetan tradition, unilaterally announced his selection of Gedhun Choekyi Nyima. The leadership in China spirited Nyima away to prevent his being taken to India by the Dalai Lama's supporters and reverted to the Qing Dynasty's Golden Urn process to select Gyaincain Norbu, who currently fulfills the duties of the Panchen Lama in China.
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> In November 1995, the Chinese government selected a different boy, Gyaincain Norbu, using the urn. This decision was immediately denounced by the Dalai Lama. China holds Gedhun Choekyi Nyima in a place not told to the public


In 2015, from the New York Times at http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/12/world/asia/chinas-tensions-with-dalai-lama-spill-into-the-afterlife.html?smid=fb-share

# [China’s Tensions With Dalai Lama Spill Into the Afterlife](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/12/world/asia/chinas-tensions-with-dalai-lama-spill-into-the-afterlife.html?smid=fb-share)

> Decision-making power over the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama, and over the end or survival of this lineage, resides in the central government of China,” said Mr. Zhu, formerly a deputy head of the United Front Department of the Communist Party, which oversees dealings with religious and other nonparty groups. . . .
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> Mr. Zhu accused the Dalai Lama of trampling on sacred traditions.
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> “In religious terms, this is a betrayal of the succession of Dalai Lamas in Tibetan Buddhism,” he said.

Reuters and Yahoo News pick up the trail at https://www.yahoo.com/news/china-says-missing-panchen-lama-living-normal-life-045925030.html

# [China says missing Panchen Lama is 'living a normal life'](https://www.yahoo.com/news/china-says-missing-panchen-lama-living-normal-life-045925030.html)
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> He denounced the Dalai Lama for declaring the boy as the reincarnation of the Panchen Lama, saying the selection "ignored historical customs and destroyed religious rituals".
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> "The identification was done without authorization. It was illegal and invalid," Norbu Dunzhub said.
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> No matter what the Dalai Lama says or does, the central government's recognized rights toward reincarnation cannot be denied," Norbu Dunzhub said.

Just so you can authenticate your buddha's, the Chinese government has established The Living Buddha Authentication Hotline at http://hf.tibet.cn/

From the WSJ at http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2016/01/19/china-launches-living-buddha-authentication-site-dalai-lama-not-included/

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# [China Launches Living-Buddha Authentication Site, Dalai Lama Not Included](http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2016/01/19/china-launches-living-buddha-authentication-site-dalai-lama-not-included/)

> The database is accessible through a web browser as well as the popular mobile messaging app WeChat. The interface allows users to search living Buddhas by birth name, religious (or dharma) name, temple, identity card number or living-Buddha card number. Each search requires a code sent via SMS to a mobile number and, for reasons that are not entirely clear, users are limited to making only five searches per mobile number each day.


 . . . and now, from Quartz at https://qz.com/1080962/china-is-retaliating-against-the-university-of-california-san-diego-for-inviting-the-dalai-lama-to-speak-at-commencement/?utm_source=parSHG

# [China is retaliating against a US university for inviting the Dalai Lama to speak at graduation](https://qz.com/1080962/china-is-retaliating-against-the-university-of-california-san-diego-for-inviting-the-dalai-lama-to-speak-at-commencement/?utm_source=parSHG)



> Now, the Chinese government has retaliated. On Sept. 16, UCSD professor Victor Shih tweeted that a colleague of his received notice that the China Scholarship Council, a branch of the government that funds overseas study for Chinese citizens, would no longer process applications to study at UCSD for scholars who had not already received a visa appointment from the US embassy.
 
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